The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
An Online Catalogue Raisonné under the Direction of Société Paul Cezanne
(Formerly directed by Walter Feilchenfeldt, Jayne Warman and David Nash)
FWN 271
Pigeonnier de Bellevue
c.1890
Alternate titles: Landschaft mit altem Gehöft: Le Pigeonnier; Le Pigeonnier de Bellevue
Rewald (693): c.1890; Venturi revised: 1890–94; Venturi (653): 1888–92
Oil on canvas
20 7/8 x 31 1/2 in. (53 x 80 cm)
Vollard A stockbook: no. 3573, huile; plusieurs maisons sur une seule rangée avec des arbres; premier plan terre rouge -- paysage du midi, 54 x 81 cm (175 frs)
Vollard B stockbook: no. 3805, Mas dans le Midi, 54 x 81 cm (200 frs)
Vollard W stockbook: no. 4225, maisons de Provence; huile, 60 x 80 (70,000)
Vollard archives: photo no. 34,[36], and 501, Annotated by Cezanne's son: 1892
Provenance
Exhibition History
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Vom Abbild zum Sinnbild, June 3–July 3, 1931, no. 27, as Landschaft mit altem Gehöft: Le Pigeonnier, lent by Private collection.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Paul Cézanne, August 30–October 12, 1936, no. 148, (dated c. 1890), as Le Pigeonnier de Bellevue, lent by von Hirsch.
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Kunstwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts aus Basler Privatbesitz, May 1–July 4, 1943, no. 312.
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 63, pl. 29, lent by Private collection, Switzerland.
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Cézanne bis Richter: Meisterwerke aus dem Kunstmuseum Basel, February 14, 2015–February 16, 2016, no. 3, ill., as Le Pigeonnier de Bellevue, 1888-92.
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, The Hidden Cézanne: From Sketchbook to Canvas, June 10–September 24, 2017, no. 179, ill.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 653, ill. vol. II, as Pigeonnier de Bellevue.
Novotny, Fritz. Cézanne und das Ende der wissenschaftlichen Perspektive. Vienna: Anton Schroll, 1938, list of motifs: no. 76.
"Das Tor zur Moderne. Paul Cézanne in Schweizer Sammlungen." Du 49, no. 9 (September 1989), p. 70, ill.
Rewald, John. The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, A Catalogue Raisonné, 2 vols. In Collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, no. 693, ill. vol. 2, as Pigeonnier de Bellevue.
Ely, Bruno. "Gardanne, Montbriand and Bellevue." In Cézanne in Provence. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue, p. 155, fig. 4, as Pigeonnier de Bellevue.
Coutagne, Denis. "P. Cézanne, sur la colline de la Constance–Valcros." Aix-en-Provence: SPLA Pays d'Aix Territoires, June 2015, ill. p. 71.
Bonfort, ed., Didier. Dans les pas de P. Cezanne, Valcros - Bellevue - Montbriand. Didier Bonfort, ed.. Aix-en-provence: Sauvegarde des paysages de Cezanne, February 2016, p. 24, ill., as Pigeonnier de Bellevue, with photo of motif, p. 25.
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 186, ill.
Record last updated November 3, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Pigeonnier de Bellevue, c.1890 (FWN 271)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=671 (accessed on November 6, 2024).